"To believe the government version of facts is to disregard clear and convincing evidence to the contrary."

Information about the conflicting witness accounts, and other issues, has been available from the beginning, but these Marines have been sitting in limbo nonetheless. And you don't see the story of the dropped charges getting nearly the mileage that the accusations did, do you?

Where is John Murtha to champion these Marines - or at least to issue an apology?

In Today's News - Friday, August 10, 2007

Quote of the Day"Liberty must at all hazards be supported.We have a right to it, derived from our Maker.But if we had not, our fathers have earnedand bought it for us, at the expense of their ease,their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."-- John Adams

Today in History1519 - Magellan's 5 ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth.1792 -Parisian mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI.1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day).1821 - Missouri is admitted as 24th U.S. state.1846 - Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution1885 - In Baltimore, Leo Daft opens America's first commerically operated electric streetcar.1893 - Chinese are deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act.1911 - The Parliament Act reduces the power of the House of Lords.1913 - The Second Balkan War ends with the Treaty of Bucharest - Bulgaria loses.1919 - The Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia, Ukraine.1921 - FDR is stricken with polio.1945 - Japan announces its willingness to surrender to the Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito's status remains unchanged.1948 - ABC enters the world of network TV at 7 pm; Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" debuts on that same network.1949 - The National Military Establishment is renamed the Department of Defense.1960 - Discoverer-13 is launched into orbit; it returns the first object from space.1961 - England applies for membership in the European Common Market.1965 - Joe Engle takes the X-15 to 82 km.1966 - The first lunar orbiter is launched by the U.S.; a daylight meteor, seen from Utah to Canada, is the first known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere, and leaving again.1977 - Postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers, NY for the "Son of Sam" murders.1981 - In San Clemente, the Richard Nixon Museum closes.1988 - The U.N. estimates that Asia's population has hit one billion.1990 - The U.S's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus.

Birthdays1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933)

Passings1945 - Robert Goddard, father of American rocketry1963 - Estes Kefauver (Sen-TN)1988 - Arias Arnulfo, three-time president of Panama